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Nairobi War Cemetery Multi Multi-Cache

Hidden : 4/6/2015
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


Nairobi War Cemetery

Given coordinates are for the parking area at the entrance to the cemetery.

The cache, a small black-taped tablet tube with a log paper and pencil, is hidden close to this tranquil, leafy place of commemoration of African casualties of World War II with its beautiful setting and layout. Please take care to look out for muggles and to replace the cache properly.

The cemetery is adjacent to Nairobi race course and reached by way of a long driveway off Ngong Road, and indicated by a Commonwealth War Graves Commission sign. It is open every day from 06:00-18:00.

To reach the cache location: take the Ngong Road heading south-west out of the city as far as S 01 18.279 E 36 44.754. Turn left south here onto a long straight gravel drive as far as the parking area at the entrance to the cemetery.

To find the cache:

Step 1: enter the cemetery and head for S 01 18.604 E 36 44.902 where you will find a large rectangular memorial stone at the centre of the cemetery. There are A words inscribed on this.

Steps 2 & 3: now head for S 01 18.596 E 36 44.921 where there are B square columns with the names of 2C00 men and women who gave their lives in British service in Italian Somaliland, Ethiopia, Kenya and Madagascar, but have no known grave

Step 4: close to here at S 01 18.592 E 36 44.919, a corner column has the names of members of the Somaliland Camel Corps who lost their lives in the war. The number of letters in the full name of the first person on the list = D

Step 5: move on to S 01 18.652 E 36 44.930 in the south-east corner of the cemetery where you will find the grave of Muliungu Kisonzo of the Army Recce Troop. His identification number is 1E1011

Step 6: now proceed to S 01 18.638 E 36 44.895 where you will find the grave of 54371 Private Juma Ali of the East African Army Service Corps. On the southern edge of the headstone is inscribed FH indicating the number of that row of graves.

Step 7: finally head for S 01 18.615 E 36 44.880 where there are some more square columns inscribed with the names of those buried elsewhere in Kenya who are honoured with their comrades. Under those members of the East African Corps of Military Police listed on the west face of the column closest to the adjacent Ngong Race Course, the last listed is a Private Kioko. His first name has G letters

The cache may be found at:

S 01 18.A(E-1)(B-C) E 36 44.(D+1)(G-4)(F-1)


During WWII Nairobi was the headquarters of the East African Force and the base for the conquest of Jubaland and Italian Somaliland, the liberation of British Somaliland and the sweep north-westwards to open Addis Ababa for the return of the Emperor.

It was also a hospital centre; No.87 British General Hospital arrived in June 1943 and was still there in December 1945, while No.150 British General Hospital was there for a period in 1943.

It was opened in 1941 by the military authorities. Besides the original burials, numerous graves were transferred to this cemetery from African civil cemeteries and temporary army burial grounds at Garissa, Gelib, Kinangop, Marsabit, Mega and other inaccessible places, so that it is now the largest war cemetery in East Africa.

It contains over 2,000 Commonwealth burials of which 11 are unidentified. There are also 80 non-war burials and one French grave. Within the cemetery is the East African Memorial which commemorates men of the land forces who lost their lives in the advance from the south into Italian Somaliland and Ethiopia and during the occupation of those territories, and who have no known grave. Along with them are honoured those who died during the operations in Madagascar in 1942 and who have no known grave. Besides those who died in these campaigns, many men who were lost in the sinking of the troopship 'Khedive Ismail' en route to Ceylon on 12 February 1944 are commemorated here; they include a great part of the 301st Field Regiment, East African Artillery.

The cemetery also contains the Nairobi Memorial which commemorates 477 men of the United Kingdom, South African, and East African Forces who died in the non-operational zones of Kenya whilst in training, or on lines of communication or garrison duty, and whose graves could not be located or are so situated as to be unmaintainable.

(Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission web-site)

 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

pbirerq jvgu fgbarf

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)